Adventures in Sustainable Urbanism
eBook - ePub

Adventures in Sustainable Urbanism

  1. 278 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Adventures in Sustainable Urbanism

About this book

In the context of urban sustainable development, the "details" of sustainability's current expressions perpetuate environmental injustice, untenable growth, and the destruction of functioning ecosystems. In response to this state of affairs, Adventures in Sustainable Urbanism aims to prompt new debates about the consequences of sustainable urbanism as it moves from planning to practice. Contributors explore policy, practice, and experience from cities around the world, including Calgary, Christchurch, Dortmund, Vancouver, and others. Written by scholars who live in these cities, chapters offer empirically rich descriptions for opening up new lines of thinking, theorizing, and debate about the sustainable city and its actual material expressions in place. By examining the sustainable city through various analytical framings, contributors urge readers to move from viewing the sustainable city as something everyone can agree on, to a highly politicized and contested process. Additional resources are provided for readers who may wish to extend their own research into a city or theme.

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Yes, you can access Adventures in Sustainable Urbanism by Robert Krueger, Tim Freytag, Samuel Mössner, Robert Krueger,Tim Freytag,Samuel Mössner in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politics & International Relations & Ecology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Preface
  7. Introduction Global Transformations, Cities, and the New Sustainability Consensus
  8. Chapter 1 Constructing Sustainable Development
  9. Chapter 2 The Rise of Sustainable Urban Development
  10. Chapter 3 A Tale of Two Cities: Christchurch, New Zealand, and Sustainable Urban Disaster Recovery
  11. Chapter 4 Reworking Newtown Creek
  12. Chapter 5 From Sprawling Cowtown to Social Sustainability Pioneer: The Sustainability Journey of Calgary, Alberta
  13. Chapter 6 The Greenest City Experience: Exploring Social Action and Social Action and
  14. Chapter 7 Introducing Luxembourg: Ephemeral Sustainabilities
  15. Chapter 8 Montpellier Écocité: From Growth Machine to Sustainability?
  16. Chapter 9 Building Ecopolis in the World’s Factory: A Field Note on Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city
  17. Chapter 10 Sustainable Empire?
  18. Chapter 11 Middle-Class Family Enclavism and Solidarity from a Distance Notes from a Field of Contradictions in Dortmund, Germany
  19. Chapter 12 A Conclusion? Or, Toward a New Beginning?
  20. Contributors
  21. Index
  22. Back Cover